Yaacov, OFF-TOPIC
I never heard the term Meditteranean Jews before. In America, we call the group of Jew's you are a member of - Sephardic; and we call the other group, the formerly Yiddish-speaking eastern European Jews - Ashkanazi.
The only Yiddish I know, I heard in my childhood from my mother, who was born in Chicago and grandmother, who was born in the area near Kiev, Russia - now part of Belarus. Surprisingly, I find many of these words slipping into English now - words like schmuck, chutzpah, maven, putz and many, many more.
I very much regret that I don't have any knowledge of my forefathers background earlier than some of my great-grandparents, so I don't know when they arrived in that part of the world - or anything else about them. Do you have a family history that is still well known?
I always thought of all Jews as Meditteranean, at least originally, because before the diaspora was created when the Romans's sacked Jeruselum in about 70 CE, we all lived more or less in the same place.
By the way, when people attempt to guess from my appearance the national origin of my forefathers, the usual guess is one of the Mediterranean countries.
Yaacov, please explain what schor-yudden means. I'm not familiar with this term but must admit it sounds somewhat pejorative.
Regards and Shabat sholom to you.
Barry |
